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Assuming arties can hit you for immediately lethal damage if you fly away, and effectively always do some nominal damage to you at any range, while ACs will do steady-but-decreasing-to-0dps to you relative to your range:

1) You would initially be best off mwding from ACs, and aligning across arties. In the long run you'd be best getting to range from the ACs, but you'd never be best off mwding from arties.

2) Thus your optimal strategy is to first align, then if not against arties, mwd away from the ACs until they don't hurt you. If against arties, where you must keep aligning but do take some nominal damage, you would eventually die but actually you'll warp off first.

3) Even if all Eve players understood this and became superrational, they'd still be best going with arties for that nominal damage up close + instant kill if you mwd away, rather than ACs doing not-instantly fatal dps up close + eventually 0dps at range.
Or they'd just not engage, but that's a different problem & 1 for CCP...

4) And you'd also still be best off first aligning across them.

Boosh, a variant of the iterated Prisoner's dimemma, with a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium?
Because of the arties 1-shot case, there is no 'one-shot deviation principle' violation offered by the option to change strategy to mwd away for 1 period. And the other players won't swap to ACs because they don't kill you before you can warp.

He's bitching at chessur for losing a single BC to two sebo arty nados after pawning 20 guys 4 times in a row without logistics.

And lord, you wouldn't get slack anyway since you are basically our resident kanye west, once in a while you do something great an then you blow all that good will with your personality and superiority complex.

And lord, you wouldn't get slack anyway since you are basically our resident kanye west, once in a while you do something great an then you blow all that good will with your personality and superiority complex.

As many of you have guessed, yes, I have had several drinks and yes, I have smoked tonight, and also I am announcing....